First guess...you have NAT and DHCP enabled and when the radio reboots your PC gives up on DHCP (because the SM is rebooting).
On 1/31/10, David Hannum <[email protected]> wrote: > For about the past two weeks, we've been having problems setting up or > Canopy 900 MHz SM units. It's really odd. For example, today I went out to > do site surveys. When I connected to my survey radio and it seemed fine at > first. I have the page set to refresh every three seconds for doing site > surveys. After about 5-7 page refreshes, I cannot load the page any more. > The network icon on my system tray, goes from "local only" to a warning > indicator and "limited connectivity" status. This "limited connectivity" > status is the problem we've been having where we can't get back into the > radios after a change has been made. > Another example is: An installer has configured a radio, and put in an IP > address of, 192.168.5.1. When he reboots the radio, before he could get > back in (provided he left the Management VID pass through enabled) he > could simply go to the IP 192.168.5.1 with his web browser, and the > interface would come back up. Lately, he's been having an issue where (and > I've experienced it too), after he reboots, he cannot get back into the > radio. He might try and try, but only when he puts the default plug in > can he get back in. Then, if he does a reset to factory defaults, he can > get in. But if he changes even one little thing in the radio (say, > frequency from all to a specific channel) and reboots, he's locked out of > the radio again. We've had cases where if we drive down the road a few > miles, and stop the vehicle, and plug that same radio that we could not get > back into earlier, into our computer, we can get in again. Then, if we go > to the customers to install it, we cannot get back in again. What might be > causing this issue. > > We had an install Friday where the installer configured the radio at home, > rebooted it several time to make sure he could get back in, and he could. > He drove to the customer, hung the radio, fired it up and could not get back > in. I went in from my console, and could see the radio on the network. I > made the final adjustments and told him to try to go to a web page. He > could not (this is the same computer that he set the radio up with > earlier). He plugged the radio into the customer's computer and they could > get online. He plugged it back into his, and he could not. He took the > same computer to the next home, and every thing worked fine. What could be > happening here? We're having this issue with every laptop we own, on every > browser (IE, Firefox, etc). These are Dell Vostro 1510 laptops with Windows > Vista Home. They have worked flawlessly until now. Funny that all three > would develop the same problem at the same time. The timing of this issue > seems to coincide with the wave of the Microsoft updates & patches of the > past two weeks. Today, I had my site survey radio and a radio that was > programmed. I was switching back and forth between the two, probably 10-12 > times during a hour and a half period. I'd like the screen sit and refresh > for 15 or so minutes at a time, no problem. I then when out, with the same > radios and same laptop, to do a site survey and everything broke again. I > fired up the site survey radio. The page refreshed about 5 to 7 times then > that was it. I was unable to connect with the radio again, regardless of > what I did with one exception. When the default plug is in the radio, there > never seems to be an issue (except you can't do the survey with it in > there). > > Is anyone else experiencing this sort of thing, or are we just special? > > We're wondering if it's a temperature thing on the laptops. It seems that > when we can get in and do anything we want, it's in the warmth of a house or > car. When we take the laptop out in sub 30 degree temps, it triggers this > behavior. Could just be a coincidence . . . > > Kind Regards, > David Hannum > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
